Demeka "Nicety"'s Blog – August 2016 Archive (81)

Three young girls, the oldest of whom is 16, fell from a Ferris wheel at an East Tennessee fair on Monday.

Authorities say happened at the Greene County Fair when a basket flipped over, causing the children to fall 35 to 40 feet, according to…

A man has been charged in the shooting death of his 11-year-old daughter in Sumner County.

The incident happened before 3:30 p.m. yesterday at a home on Shady View Drive in Hendersonville.

Officials with Hendersonville Police said 29-year-old Timothy Batts…

So R. Kelly, who is 49 years old, is allegedly dating a 19-year old. Looking at his past with young females this is both questionable and not a surprise. If you will remember the R&B singer married a 15 year old singer by the name of Aaliyah. That marriage was later annulled.…

If current economic trends continue, the average black household will need 228 years to accumulate as much wealth as their white counterparts hold today. For the average Latino family, it will take 84 years. Absent significant policy interventions, or a seismic change in the American economy, people of color will never close the gap.

Those are…

Laverne Cox has always been a major inspiration to many since the beginning of her career, but the actress took confidence to a whole other level in her latest social media post.

The OITNB star took to Instagram to show the world that she ‘woke up like dis’ and doesn’t regret it one bit.…

Roger Federer- 35 years old

Meagan Good- 35 years old

Dustin Hoffman- 79…

Drake kept the surprises coming on the Summer Sixteen tour’s second night in New York City. The global ambassador to the Toronto Raptors brought out the Knicks’ new point guard Derrick Rose and his young son PJ to a shower of applause. "He'll take you all the way, I promise you," Drake said.…

Jesse Williams- 35 years old

DeRay Davis- 48 years old

Lolo Jones- 34 years old…

Irv Gotti’s girlfriend, model Ashley Martelle, accidentally showed too much on Snapchat. She reportedly uploaded a video of her performing oral sex on an unidentified man — who many viewers believe to be Gotti.

Lil’ Durk revealed on The Breakfast Club…

There are a thousand good reasons to never get married: in-laws, divorce attorneys, and the inevitable ravages of age on one’s attractiveness come immediately to mind.

But there are also significant tax hits that come with getting hitched, or as they’ve…

Well unless you have been living under a rock for the past 3 weeks, then you have heard something about Pokemon Go. But what exactly is Pokemon Go? Pokemon Go is an application (app)/game for your smart phone. In the game, your goal is to catch all of the Pokemon that are available here in the US.…

President Barack Obama- 55 years old

Bobby Shmurda- 22 years old

Jeff Gordon- 45 years old…

U.S. President Barack Obama has shortened the sentences of 214 inmates of U.S. federal prisons, in what the White House called the largest batch of commutations on a single day in more than a century.

 The early release is part of…

A coroner in Louisiana said federal authorities ordered the autopsy report sealed for Alton Sterling, a black man who was shot and killed by white police officers last month outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge.

East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner William “Beau” Clark reported Tuesday that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle…

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Just days before voters head to the polls, the race for the District 1 Metro Council seat is heating up.

At the center of the controversy, is a racially charged photo that was doctored to show Nick Leonardo, the only white candidate running for Metro Council in District 1, standing in front of four people wearing blackface makeup.  Leonardo’s…

There is a website that track police violence here in the United States of America.

Click here to…

According to TMZ, Luckett and ex-hubby Rob Hillman tied the knot back in January but split after just 2 months and change. The divorce was just finalized, and according to docs it all seems pretty cordial — with such a short marriage there wasn’t much community property to divvy up.

The one celebrity difference — the clause about “Social media…

Draymond Green’s long summer of cock and balls-related controversy—he kneed Steven Adams in the crotch, swiped at LeBron’s wang, and acted like a d!ck—continues unabated. Earlier today, amidst pictures of Melo sleeping and general Team USA shenanigans, an artfully crafted d!ck pic showed up on Green’s public Snapchat My Story, before…

The recent horrific killings of black men and white police officers in violent, police/community encounters indicate the depth of racial injustice and racial polarization in our nation. Sadly, these tragic events are not novel and echo the urban riots of the 1960s, Miami in 1980, Los Angeles in 1992, Cincinnati in 2001, Ferguson in 2014 and Baltimore in 2015.…